Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula: Gang Dong Won's film to release on THIS day in South Korea

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: [REC], the 2007 Spanish found-footage horror that grossed $32.5M off a minimal budget, is getting a special re-release in the country in the 4DX format, becoming the first Spanish non-CGI title to be adapted into the technology.4DX, originally developed by South Korean company CJ, augments a film experience with practical effects such as motion seats, wind, strobe light, and scents.

South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo joined the world to mourn the loss of Ennio Morricone. The week began on a heartbreaking note as the Italian media confirmed Morricone passed away recently.

Police in South Korea have officially apologized for mistakes made during the country's most notorious serial killer investigation, a case that saw an innocent man jailed for 20 years and which inspired Bong Joon-ho's 2003 hit film Memories of Murder.

The BTS Army is freaking out – and it’s all because of V!

Tom Grater, Jill Goldsmith Yesterday’s news that the European Union will not lift travel restrictions on the U.S. due to the scale of the country’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak prompted concerns about the re-start of American film and TV production based in Europe.As of today (July 1), travelers from 15 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China can cross borders into the EU, but the U.S.

Jill Goldsmith The Council of the European Union has kept restrictions on travel from the U.S. in place even as it lifts them for 15 other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China starting tomorrow, July 1.U.S.

As global cinemas look to reopen amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Imax has signed a 17-theater deal with Korea's CGV, the biggest this year for the giant screen exhibitor. The agreement will see nine Imax large format screens installed in South Korea, in addition to theaters being added to CGV’s global footprint, which includes Turkey, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Jill Goldsmith Imax Monday announced an expansion of a longstanding partnership with South Korea’s CGV to launch 17 new theaters in that country as well as in Turkey, Vietnam, and Indonesia.Imax said South Korea, where it’s putting nine new theatres, is one of its fastest-growing markets and home of its highest grossing screen worldwide.The pact is  the large-format exhibitor’s biggest theater deal in 2020 and comes as the global movie theatre industry seeks to reopen, with South Korea among

It is not new to see South Korean stars come forward to support their fellow actors and their shows and movies. But every time it happens, it makes our hearts flutter.

Sonia Kil Hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Korean film industry, which celebrated its centenary with Bong Joon-ho’s history-making Academy awards for “Parasite” earlier this year, has been in an unprecedented crisis since February.Since the South Korean government adopted tough social distancing measures in late February, when the coronavirus was at its peak, cinema business has been largely affected due to local audiences’ growing fear of physical contact with strangers, including

Sonia Kil South Korea’s CJ ENM, the studio behind “Parasite,” and its subsidiary Studio Dragon have signed a partnership deal with American production company Skydance Media’s Skydance Television to co-develop an English-language remake of hit South Korean TV series “Hotel Del Luna.”Produced by Studio Dragon and aired on CJ ENM’s TV channel tvN in 2019, “Hotel Del Luna” is a fantasy drama that revolves around an elite hotelier who becomes the manager of an hotel that only caters to spirits at

In early May, health officials in Seoul, South Korea, traced a spike in coronavirus infections to reopened nightclubs in one part of the city. Now, in an effort to help rein in future outbreaks, authorities have begun requiring venues across the country to scan contact-tracing applications on clubbers' mobile phones before granting them entrance. The apps, which employ scannable QR codes

Bachelor in Paradise alums Kevin Wendt and Astrid Loch announced that they have rescued a dog named Ace from a kill shelter in South Korea.The couple, who got engaged in August 2019, showed off “the newest member of the family” via Instagram on Thursday, June 18.